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will be granted a one-year leave every seven years. Urban and 

 particularly suburban growth will expand greatly both to accommo- 

 date the growing population and to provide amenities that It 

 Increasingly demands: single-family dwellings, recreational areas, 

 transportation facilities, Industrial developments, and so on. 

 These demands will place rapidly Increasing burdens on the Nation's 

 resources and Its environment. These burdens, 1n turn, will tax 

 the ability of decision-makers and the Nation's population to cope 

 with the complexity and insistence of the problems generated by a 

 post-Industrial, urbanized society. 



SECTION 2. TRENDS IN THE ESTUARINE ZONE 

 POPULATION AND ECONOMY 



FUTURE POPULATION GROWTH IN THE ESTUARINE ZONE 



The estuarlne zone economic region Includes the coastal counties 

 plus a few non-coastal counties Included as part of estuarine zone 

 SMSA's*. The overall recent population growth rate in the estuarine 

 zone economic region has exceeded that of the Nation as a whole. 

 From 1930 through 1960, the Dopulation of the coastal counties and 

 SMSA's Increased 78 percent, compared to a national growth rate of 

 46 percent. Future population growth 1s projected to continue above 

 the national average, but at a somewhat lower rate. Estuarine zone 

 population is expected to more than double between 1960 and 2020 from 



♦SMSA's are Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas. 



